António Afonso has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon and is Full Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics of ISEG/UL - University of Lisbon.

He is currently the President of UECE - Research Unit on Complexity and Economics, coordinator of the Master in Monetary and Financial Economics, and coordinator of the PhD in Economics. He was previously Principal Economist at the European Central Bank, Senior Economist at CGD, BNU, and at IGCP, and Consultant and Adviser at the Ministry of Finance. He was also consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, the European Court of Auditors and the International Monetary Fund.

His research interests include fiscal policy, applied economics, macroeconomics and financial economics, and he has published more than 80 papers in academic journals. He has co-authored books on introductory financial economics, economics and public finances, and monetary and financial economics, and several chapters in books. http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~aafonso/AAWeb.html

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is Director of the Latin American Centre, Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Latin America at the University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s.

He has a BA in Economics from the Universidad Complutense, a MA in Public Administration from the Instituto Ortega y Gasset and a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research.

His research concentrates on income inequality, structural transformation, development models and the political economy of development in Latin America. Together with Juliana Martínez Franzoni, he has published the monograph Good Jobs and Social Services: How Costa Rica Achieved the Elusive Double Incorporation (Palgrave McMillan, 2013) and will publish another one on universal social policy in the South in Cambridge University Press this year.

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is also the co-editor of four books and a special issue and has published papers in international journals like Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies and World Development.

He is the co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies and Region Head at Oxford Analytica.